Create a dynamic remarketing campaign

Dynamic remarketing campaigns are used to show your previous visitors ads with products or services they viewed on your website. These campaigns provide you with extra settings and reports specifically for reaching previous visitors.

This article explains how to set up a dynamic remarketing campaign.

Before you begin

You can only use dynamic remarketing with "Display Network" campaigns.

Keep in mind that your remarketing tag shouldn't be associated with any personally identifiable or sensitive information. Sensitive categories of websites and apps can't use remarketing. If you're setting up a remarketing campaign and placing the remarketing tag on your website or mobile app, you need to follow the Policy for advertising based on interests and location.

Note: Google Ads doesn't offer reporting for dynamic remarketing campaigns at the item level. If you want to see this granular level of reporting, you'll need to track these metrics within your own tracking system.

In the Audiences section, select Remarketing and choose a remarketing list.

Note: If you have no remarketing lists setup, we recommend you choose the AdWords optimized list which includes users from all app and web audience sources. It is quick to setup and for many users, this option performs better than manually segmenting, because it allows auto bidding to fully optimize the data it has on all users. Please follow the below steps to setup:

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Dynamic prospecting and dynamic remarketing

Dynamic prospecting brings user information and product information together to show your best product at the right time to the users who would be the most interested. Unlike dynamic remarketing, which is focused on getting the most value out of your existing customers, dynamic prospecting is used to acquire new users. This difference makes dynamic prospecting the preferable method if you’re a new advertiser or if you’re targeting an audience different from your own first-party data (including your remarketing lists).

How it works

Dynamic prospecting uses machine learning to get an idea for what potential buyers are looking for. Once the system knows what the user is after, it combines that possible intent with demographics-based information such as age, gender, and household income to match the user with a product in your feed. The products in your feed are evaluated based on performance, relevance, and other factors to determine which ones are most likely to catch the user’s attention and lead to conversions.